Ex Parte VEA et al - Page 1


                         The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written           
                                for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                    
                                                                                Paper No. 40                  
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                              
                                                __________                                                    
                            BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                
                                         AND INTERFERENCES                                                    
                                                __________                                                    
                                            Ex parte ELY VEA and                                              
                                            FRANCOIS COLLIOT                                                  
                                                __________                                                    
                                            Appeal No. 2001-1251                                              
                                         Application No. 08/369,865                                           
                                                __________                                                    
                                                 ON BRIEF1                                                    
                                                __________                                                    
                Before WINTERS, ADAMS, and GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judges.                              
                ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                           

                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                 
                      This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the                         
                examiner’s final rejection of claims 2-8, which are all the claims pending in the             
                application.                                                                                  
                      Claim 2 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced               
                below:                                                                                        
                      2.     A process for the treatment of grasslands against grasshoppers or                
                             locusts comprising treating the grasslands attacked, or susceptible              
                             to attack, by grasshoppers or locusts with an effective amount of an             
                             active material which is 1-[2,6-dichloro-4-CF3-phenyl]-3-cyano-4-                
                             CF3SO-5NH2-pyrazole].                                                            
                      The references relied upon by the examiner are:                                         
                                                                                                              
                1 In accordance with 37 CFR 1.194(c), the Board decided that an oral hearing was not necessary
                in this appeal.                                                                               





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